Nullifying requirement to reboot after kernel update

[Tom H]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 13.04.2015, 10:04 -0400 schrieb Tom H:
>>
>> All that you need to do is remove the symlink or symlink
>> "/etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier" to "/dev/null" rather than to
>> "/usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required".
>
> you should never ever link a binary/script/app to /dev/null, the process
> calling it might await a response which you will never get
> from /dev/null, so it could hang forever ...
>
> link to /bin/true instead, that will always return a proper exit code to
> the calling process ...

Thanks. That's what I meant but systemd's masking MO has polluted my
brain/fingers! :)

Apologies to all for the brain fart.